Friday 30th May 2025

WWT Slimbridge    The male WHITE-SPOTTED BLUETHROAT still in the reedbeds at Middle Point from the Shepherds Hut today. Two Mediterranean Gulls on the Rushy this morning. A SPOONBILL still on the Top New Piece from Zeiss hide. (Dot Jones/Ian Hull/Tim Jukes).

Saul Warth     At high tide a Mediterranean Gull, a juvenile Peregrine, two distant male Marsh Harriers, a Kestrel, a Buzzard, two Common Cranes, two Egyptian Geese, two Barnacle Geese, 15 Curlews, seven Oystercatchers, three Skylarks, three Whitethroats, a Chiffchaff, two Swallows, two House Martins and the first Meadow Brown. (MK).

Mediterranean Gull by Mike King

Edge     At Rudge Hill N.R. a Whitethroat, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Meadow Pipit, a Skylark, a Chiffchaff, a Willow Warbler and a Blackcap. Also a Roe Deer buck. (Jon Dexter).

Northleach    A Peregrine hunting corvids along the track from Eric Loving and Son on the A429 today. (Dave Soons).

Coombe Hill Meadows     Three Mute Swans, a pair of Greylags with four large goslings, 60 Mallards, a Great White Egret, a Little Egret, four Grey Herons, a Cormorant, eight Coots, six Moorhens, a pair of Oystercatchers with a chick, two Lapwings, two Redshanks, a Cuckoo, three Skylarks, two Reed Warblers, a Sedge Warbler, two Whitethroats, two Blackcaps, two Chiffchaffs and three Reed Buntings. (Mike Smart).

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About The Gloster Birder

My name is Mike King and have lived all my life in Gloucestershire. I am happiest birding around Frampton but I especially love Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Madeira, Mexico, Grand Cayman, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey and most recently Thailand.
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